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May 15th, 2012 by Joel

Book Announcement: People of the Book: Inviting Communities into Biblical Interpretation

Congrats to Michael Halcomb on this!

You have to go here… to learn about ordering it:

We wrote this book because we live in an era when the Bible appears to be less and less relevant to mainstream cultures. Those who do care about the Scriptures tend to derive their interpretations secondhand, from the preacher’s pulpit or from generalized study guides written by complete strangers. These approaches overlook the communal and conversational nature of the Bible itself. Our view is that, if we hope to recover the transformative power of these ancient texts, and invite our world to reconsider their significance, we will need to engage whole communities together in the bottom-up task of interpretation. Thus, People of the Book was written to offer an organic-holistic approach to communal interpretation, an approach that can work for your community and appeal to your wider culture. Indeed, we envision the Bible as a conversation we are privileged to enter: listening, questioning, wrestling, reasoning, and responding together as authentic people of the Book.

May 9th, 2012 by RodtRDH

Debunking the Lawyers of Noncontradiction

There have been a few fundamentalists taking cheap shots at my arguments with the same old “you’re violating the law of noncontradiction” argument. It gets old, so to put it to rest, placing it 6 feet under my feet, I have a response:

“This is not the first time, and I am sure it won’t be the last time, that a fundamentalist anti-intellectual has accused me of not following the “law of contradiction.” May I ask a question, if I may? Who set up this law? Who voted you to enforce this law?”

In Which I Not So Passive Agressively Talk About Truth And Rationality

February 17th, 2012 by Joel

Congrats to Jim West

Still happier (from my point of view anyway)- the fact that they’ve chosen to include my little introduction to Zwingli titled ‘Christ Our Captain: An Introduction to Huldrych Zwingli‘ (Quartz Hill Publishing: 2011) in it (as the introductory volume!).

via The Contract Is Signed and The Collection is in the ‘Works’ « Zwinglius Redivivus.

February 16th, 2012 by Joel

The Real Jim West (How Things Actually Are Meme)

jim west meme

February 15th, 2012 by Joel

Start Planning for the 106th Annual Biblioblogger Dinner and Junior Achievement Awards Bruncheon

The first year of the 92nd Annual Biblioblogger Dinner and Junior Achievement Awards was organized by Jim West, starting pretty early.

The following years, at the 77th and 22.5th Annual Dinner, respectively, were awesome.

So, I how about we start planning ahead of time…

February 15th, 2012 by Joel

Papers I wish I could submit to SBL

I’ve already submitted one, and as a student, I cannot submit more than one for my first time.

But, I was thinking… I would really like to have submitted others, especially for the Bibliobloggers unit…

Such as,

Crafting an Online Persona: Prove that Jim West is a Fuzzy-Wuzzy Teddy Bear

The New Cylon Messiah: How James McGrath is uniting Science Fiction and Religion, single-handedly.

Anyway…

Maybe next year

February 2nd, 2012 by Joel

If only I lived in Iowa…. Dr. Cargill to speak on the Dead Sea Scrolls

Robert C. Cargill, UI Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, will present a three-part series on the Dead Sea Scrolls at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 17 and Feb. 24 at Agudas Achim Congregation, 602 E. Washington St.

Cargill is a biblical studies scholar, classicist, archaeologist, author and digital humanist at the University of Iowa. Cargill’s research includes studies in the Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls and literary criticism of the Bible. (here)

 

February 1st, 2012 by Joel

Biblioblog Carnival February 2012 at Cheese-Wearing Theology

Find it here…

Biblioblog Carnival February 2012 « Cheese-Wearing Theology.

January 30th, 2012 by Joel

Welcome to…. Unsettled Christianity

I’ve changed the URL from thechurchofjesuschrist.us to unsettledchristianity.com.

Lots of reasons, but mainly because its time to finally leave the old sect behind. That was my old church, of course, but more than that… it was my old prison, mental… if you know what I mean. It’s time to move ahead.

Plus, I have some excellent contributors, with more to be added.

If you are experiencing issues, let me know, but for the most part, I think that everything will be the same. I’m keeping the old url and pointing it here, so there should be no real problem. Anyway..

Welcome.

January 27th, 2012 by Joel

A New-to-Me Science and Theology Blogger

Let me make it clear from the beginning that I do not believe that for theology to be intellectually acceptable or a worthwhile endeavor that it need to be scientific. Too often, disciplines outside of traditional science want to label their fields as scientific or use scientific terminology or methodology to make their disciplines seem more relevant in today’s scientific climate.

Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning | A biologist’s view of science & religion.

Well… there goes that paradigm of science and theology not being able to go together….